1850 Swiss Cross, Inscription 'Poste Locale 5 Centimes'

Cancels:

Typical cancel:

(Grille in black)

(Forgery or genuine?)

In the genuine stamps, there is an '8' above the 'L' of 'LOCALE'. The horizontal thin inner frame line in the top right hand corner is continued to the thick outer line (source 'The forged stamps of all countries' by J.Dorn).

A similar stamp with inscription 'TESSINO 5 RAPPEN' is a bogus stamp, issued in Lyons (France), according to Album Weeds (I have never seen this stamp).

Forgeries:

These two stamps look genuine, but they are almost identical (even the cancels!), so probably forgeries!

The above stamps could be Fournier forgeries. They come from a whole sheet of forgeries. However, they do not resemble the forgeries of 'The Fournier Album of Philatelic Forgeries', the background pattern is different (the background pattern of these forgeries also is different from the genuine stamps by the way.)

In the genuine stamp, there is a small '8' above the 'L' of 'LOCALE'. The above stamps don't have this '8'. There is also no black frame in the white cross (the above stamps do have a black frame).

The above forgery has no '8' in the design.

The above two forgeries also don't have the '8' in the design, moreover the background pattern differs from a genuine stamp.